Empires, nations, and families : a new history of the North American west, 1800-1860 / Anne F. Hyde.
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens. But the West was not the virgin wilderness of common myth. America was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires-Native and European. The author traces...
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| Main Author: |
Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Ecco Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | First ECCO paperback edition. |
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